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Edinburgh Live
National
Marie Sharp

Former East Lothian bank to become seaside cafe after house plan rejected

The owners of a former bank building in a popular seaside town have been given the go ahead to turn it into a cafe.

The former Royal Bank of Scotland branch, on North Berwick's Westgate, was bought for more than double the £225,000 asking price when it went on the market in 2018.

But attempts to gain planning permission to convert it into a home met local opposition and were rejected by planners three times as East Lothian Council insisted it should be retained as a commercial unit in the coastal town's busy centre.

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